Tag Archives: elections

Pro-state media prostrate themselves

Tunisia: An embarrassing gesture of loyalty North Korean-style to leader Zine el Abidine Ben Ali delivered to order by pro-state media workers in the run up to Sunday’s election.

Iran: more reporters held

Journalists victims of the Tehran government’s crackdown

Iran in images

Exclusive photographs of the week’s events in Tehran

OpenNet Initiative on Iranian filtering

Background on Tehran regime’s surveillance of Internet

Shirin Ebadi: “a new election must be held”

Nobel laureate calls for fresh poll and release of prisoners

Iran: seven-point manifesto

List of demands circulates among Iranian protesters

Iran round up

As foreign media are severely restricted, citizen journalism and social networking may be only way to get news out of Iran

“Iran’s civil liberties are regularly eroded as part of a ten-year political cycle”

The people of Iran have a deep regard for their religion and are proud of Persian culture but it appears that their civil liberties are eroded, regularly.

Foreign media crackdown in Iran

Jon Sawyer on the Iranian government’s censorship of journalists

Censoring the BNP 3: Claire Fox responds to Andy Newman

Index on Censorship’s debate on the far right continues

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